School Based OT

by: chanafavors

For those children who are not yet ready to start cutting with the standard scissors, there are many transitional scissors available to help make the task easier. Here is a list of adaptive scissors and their uses for your child’s specific needs.

Are you a school occupational therapist who travels from school to school? Today, I’m sharing my best tips on what to keep inside your occupational therapy bag. In my occupational therapy school bag, I keep a variety of pencil grips and writing utensils. I love to keep the Spot It game for my special education students to play. Keeping a variety of sensory tools for kids is a must-have in my bag. Don’t forget your laptop, chargers, and iPad in your occupational therapist bag!

There are two sides of the hand, a power side and a precision side. These sides are divided by an imaginary line that separates stability, support and strength side from the motor control, dexterity, and refinde skills side in fine motor skills.

While OT school equips us with the knowledge training for our career, translating it into real-world practice can sometimes feel like hitting a roadblock. If you’ve experienced this, you’re not alone. The paperwork demands in pediatric OT settings often call for quick, efficient, and tailored goals. That’s where artificial intelligence technology steps in, offering a helping hand in creating a comprehensive list of goals to keep in your toolkit for various scenarios. #occupationaltherapy...

Learning letters and sounds takes time and practice, but it can also be fun! As you are gearing up for back to school, this free alphabet book can give your child some additional practice with letter identification, printing, and beginning sounds!

This prewriting lines activity is easy to set up and a great way to develop stronger arches of the hands. Love the grasp, too: https://www.theottoolbox.com/pre-writing-lines-fine-motor-activity/

Engage your students with these comprehensive Writing Warm Up Activity Cards! Designed by an occupational therapist, this resource targets the skills of Motor Coordination/ Planning, Fine Motor Skills and Bilateral Coordination in a fun and engaging manner. There are so many ways to use these cards - assessment or progress monitoring, games, sequencing, and more!This task card resource features a collection of 54 fine motor dexterity activity cards, each presenting a different hand position...

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